FRSO Chamber music festival: the two childhoods
su 23.11.
|Helsinki Music Centre, Paavo-hall
The musicians of the Finnish Radio Symphony orchestra perform my string quartet 'the two childhoods' at this year's chamber music festival. The festival's theme is "dedicated to you" – reflecting the various people, places and phenomena to whom composers have dedicated their works.
Time & Location
23.11.2025 klo 14.00 – 15.00
Helsinki Music Centre, Paavo-hall, Helsingin Musiikkitalo, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
About the event
Incredible plot twists, symbolism, and moral lessons found in mythologies—as well as all kinds of other stories—have long sparked the creativity of composers. Karol Szymanowski was inspired by the former when composing Mythes, a work in three movements, each depicting a scene from Greek mythology. Aulis Sallinen, in turn, found inspiration in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Even memories evoked by geographical locations can be transformed into music, as in composer Leevi Räsänen’s hometown of Enonkoski in his piece the two childhoods.
Chamber Music Festival: “JUMALILLE”
Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 2 PM
Helsinki Music Centre, Paavo Hall
Musicians of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Leevi Räsänen: the two childhoods